For decades, evidence has mounted that the environment of Mars used to be far more temperate than now.
It was, characteristically, far more temperate than McCain's, but closer in substance: now there was a good guy and a bad guy.
The father, so people say, is a bland and bureaucratic man, far more temperate than the son; and, indeed, it is the second invasion that will seize the imagination of history for many years to come.
Already mutant splinter groups, many of which have retreated from the tainted, profane world, have left more temperate fundamentalists far behind.
It's hard graft, even though, at 600m above sea-level, this area is temperate and far more forgiving than the coast.
Grasslands, he says, are the unsung purifiers of the earth's atmosphere, locking up as much carbon in the organic matter of their soils as temperate forests, and far more than tropical rain forests.
Thus far, though, he has been somewhat more temperate than a few of his fellow American bishops, men who have demanded that Catholic politicians who support abortion rights — and even Catholics who vote for those politicians — be denied communion.
It routinely reaches population densities capable of consuming the entire annual leaf fall of north temperate deciduous forests, which is far more than above-ground herbivores normally do except in massive pest outbreaks [4], [6], [7].
Temperatures in far northern latitudes are rising at twice the rate seen in more temperate zones, melting snow cover, and that could hamper Earth's ability to reflect heat, climate scientists said.
At the regional scale, far more precipitation falls on the land in the tropics than in the temperate zones, and runoff in terms of precipitation minus evaporation is highest in the tropics.
Like the other subfamilies, members of Papilionoideae have their origins in the tropics, but their occupation of the arid and temperate parts of the world, mostly as herbaceous plants, is far more extensive.
